TANGSHAU ENGINEERING COLLEGE/PUCHEN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600030438-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 438
• Publication Date: January 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION Co3V1TaIiHTIAL/SE-MITY O-SY CIN
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
(INFORMATION REPORT
DATE DISTR. I J. 53
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2. In 1946 the college had a tote].:urollment of. about :even hundred to eight
hundred students. It granted Gsgrees in civil engines Lug, minirfg and
metaZ.lurglcal engineering, and railroad administration.
3. The school of mid and metallurgical engineering had an enrollment of about
two hundred students. 2Wst of the professors had been trained in the US and
the rchool had a high rating as far as its metallurgical training was concerned.
However, it granted basic bachelor of science degrees only and provided no
facilities for research work or study towards advanced degrees.
4. The former head of the college is now located ct a large university in the Us.
;. The fa.ilitias for training in metallurgical work were good dnc had good
equipment, although it was of a conglomeration of origins. The equipment in
the mineralogy laboratory was particularly good.
6. The college offered a four year couat in s(et&llurgy, but, undergraduates were
not exposed to any advanced theory or developments. Graduates of this college
ware trained to be practical metallurgists rather than to engage in theoretical
research.
National Chin Tung University, Pingyueh, dve c ow Province, This school
was formerly (mown a the Tangshan Engineering College and was originally
located in north China, near Peiping. However, it was moved to E`wsichow
Provinco as tka Japanese advanced into the interior of China Suring World
War II.
7. Practically all of the technical text books were in English. The only texts
which were in Chinese were such things as Chinese literature.
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10. The foundry at the Puchen Locomotive Works consisted of about 90 mss, inclenuding,
those who worked in the pattern shop. There were two foremen and one enchi-a_
in charge.
11. The foundry depended upon hand labor primarily,, but it did have some Osborn
equipment and some equipment from the UK, all of which was pretty old.
12. The foundry produced castings for repairing locomotives. The castings mere
primarily for such things as brake shoes and bronze bearings. It was a jam,,
foundry rather than a production foundry and the jobs varied from day for
depending on the need.
13. There were no real lar casts s produced. The largest casting during the
two years was one cylinder block for a locomotive,
3.. There was practically no mechanics.l ha ling :quie t witk. the `?'-cpc1_ 0
one traveling overhead cram %nd several short rollers immediately adjacent to
the two ovens.
lg. There was no production of such itess as wheels or a 3.s. At one times tried
to produce wheels, but without success .1 ould not collwol the depth of
chill.
16. The Puchan Locomotive Works vas a repair maintenance shop raurae than a Wadno?
tion shop. There ve-s no locomotives built at the Locomotive Works. 8owea4r,
ve serviced and maintained met, 1 locomotives which had been shipped into
China by URL.
17. Puchen Locomotive Works serviced the-railroad line which ran from Tientsin
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to Pukaw, immediately north of ^ankiag. Iwaediatily after World Mar
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Chinese CONAunists destroyed great lengths of-the track on this line, but
line. The tracks on this line definitely were not designed for high speed
operation.
18. The Puchen Locomotive Works had no turntables for locomotives. It had an
electric trolley which ran parallel to the tracks and which eventually took
locomotives into the repair shop. %o r* were s.veral thOWIZd emylayses et
the Puchen Locomotive Works, but this should not be misconstrued, am practically
all operations were manual labor and this led to the large number of eWloy"se
l9. A% of 1946, mono of the raw material.s"ed in the foundry, such as oath,
were located close by, but most Draw material stocks were those which
had been left by the Japanese.
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